Marcus Vorwaller
Director Of Engineering at Avalara
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Vorwaller is a Director of Engineering in Seattle with 18 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web products and leading teams at Avalara. He blends a strong design background with deep technical skills across Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React/Flux, HTML5/CSS and Linux server management, often owning both UX decisions and backend architecture. Marcus has a track record of shipping complex SaaS systems and developer-facing tax filing tools, and previously led major rewrites and data-versioning features at Trakstar. He’s comfortable moving between code, product and marketing needs—having built internal dashboards and marketing automation tools that turned data into actionable KPIs. Outside core development, he founded a large online community in the longboarding space, showing entrepreneurial instincts and a knack for growing user engagement.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Multimedia Design. Minors in Art & Spanish, Bachelors Multimedia Design. Minors in Art & Spanish at Southern Virginia University
Spanish, French
Github Skills (97)
ruby-sdk10
avalara10
file-tree10
ai10
tax10
tui10
sales-tax10
tax-rate10
react10
javascript9
sidecar9
rest9
soap-client9
cli9
ruby9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
marcus/td
Dec 2025 - Jun 2026
A minimalist CLI for tracking tasks across AI coding sessions.
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 39 PRs in 6 months
aicliagents
marcus/sidecar
Dec 2025 - Jun 2026
Use sidecar next to CLI agents for diffs, file trees, conversation history, and task management with td
Contributions:22 releases, 8 reviews, 96 PRs in 5 months
clifile-treesidecaragentic-aiagentic-workflows
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